2"<* S. IX, Mar. 31. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



237 



LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 31. 18G0. 



N«. 222.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Richard Thomson of Clare Hall, 237 — Etymolo- 

 gies, 240 — The Pulpit of the Venerable Bede, 241— The 

 ~ Tourmaline Crystal, lb. 



Minor Notes : — Shakspeare Polio, 1023 — Aphra Behn's 

 Plays — Number of the Beast, 242. 



QUERIES: — Duke of Kent's Canadian Residence — Geo- 

 graphical Queries — Tithes — Admiral Moore — Convoca- 

 tion of the Irish Church — Sir "Walter Raleigh's House — 

 Buckingham Gentry — "The Pettyfogger Dramatized" — 

 King Pepin and the Cordwainer — '"The Quiz" — " Com- 

 parisons are odorous " — Mother Hubbard — Parisian 

 Hoods — Col ours at Chelsea Hospital— The Letter "W." 

 " Raxlinds " — Passage in Sir Philip Sidney — Steele of 



" Gadgirth— The Termination " th," 242. 



Queeies with Answers: — Anthony (Andrew:-) de So- 

 lesmes — " Memoires de Casanova " — Rev. John F. TTsko 

 — John Bunyan Portraits — Rev. Thomas Goff— Excom- 

 munication, 244. 



REPLIES: — Witty Classical Quotations, 246 — Philip Ru- 

 bens, 247 — Scots College at Paris, 248 — Monsieur Tassies, 

 249— Lord Tracton, lb.— The Macaulay Family — Eliza- 

 beth Blackwell. M.D. — London Riots in 1780: Light 

 Horse Volunteers — Robert Seagrave — Burial in a Sitting 

 Posture — Grub Street and John Foxe — The Music of 

 I " The Twa Corbies " — Boiled— Chevalier Gallini — Oliver 

 , Cromwell's Knights, &c. — Sir Bernard de Gomme — Cleri- 

 cal Incumbents — Sympathetic Suails — Falconer's j" Voy- 

 ages" — Book of Common Prayer, 1679 — Judge's Black 

 Cap — Groom : Hole of South Tawtou, &c, 250. 



The Shakspeaee Con-thovebsy. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



RICHARD THOMSON OF CLARE HALL. 

 {Continued from 2 nd S. ix. 157.) 



Casaubon has passed into England, and has re- 

 paid the king's patronage by writing the cele- 

 brated letter to Fronto Ductcus on the Gunpowder 

 Plot, before he next mentions Thomson. When 

 1 he does, he is enjoying the hospitality of one from 

 whom he might well say that he found it hard to 

 tear himself — Lancelot Andrewcs. They spent 

 whole days in literary and theological discussions; 

 " nor can I express," says Casaubon to Thuanus, 

 "how much uprightness and true piety I have 

 i observed in the man. Would that your church 

 and the Protestants had more bishops of his ge- 

 nius and learning ! I should then hope to see an 

 easy and ready way to peace." During the forty- 

 eight days which he spent in Ely diocese, Casau- 

 bon also visited and wondered at " the magnificent 

 temple, and above all the lantern;" and went 

 over the colleges at Cambridge. 



No. 739. p. 430. Downham. Aug. 5. 1611. 

 To Dean Overall. 



Amidst abundance of good things he is suffer- 

 ing from want of books. Had not "Dominus 

 Richardsonus et Thomsonus noster" relieved his 

 necessities with their plenty, he must have for- 

 gotten his letters, having, in the expectation of a 

 j-peedy return, taken only one or two of his own 



books with him. He had conversed much with 

 both of them, as well at Cambridge as when they 

 came on a visit to the bishop. 



No. 743. pp. 432, 433. London. Sept. 29, 

 1611. To Petrus de Bert. 



Nine months before, in a great man's country 

 house*, Eichard Thomson, " vir doctissimus et mihi 

 amicissim us," showed me your Diatribe; andthough 

 I had gone there for relaxation on a festival, 

 nevertheless I read it through " from top to toe." 

 I have read a book of Eichard Thomson's on the 

 same subject. It has been, I think, published al- 

 ready in Germany, and you must have seen it. 



The following letters came late to hand, and 

 are out of chronological order. 



No. 990. p. 578. Geneva. Oct. 11, 1594. To 

 Thomson. 



If ever a day dawned propitiously upon me, it 

 was that which brought me acquainted with you : 

 day by day my friendship for you and impatience 

 at your absence becomes stronger. I cannot say 

 as much for the Pole, nor — invitus dico — for the 

 Englishman [Sir Hen. Wotton] whom you intro- 

 duced to me. [Then follows an account of the 

 great straits to which Casaubon has been brought 

 by becoming surety for Wotton, and an urgent 

 entreaty that Thomson will use all his influence to 

 bring the defaulter to a sense of duty.] Eeputa- 

 tion and studies dearer than life itself are at stake. 



" Sed faciet, spero, quod virum bonum decet. Iterum. 

 atque iterum me et mea tibi commendo. Uxor liberique 

 mei suavissimam tui memoriam servant, idem facit et 

 soror aliique amici. Vale, corculum meum. Geneva, 

 raptim in sumniis solicitudinibus." 



I may mention, by the way, that these letters 

 and the Ephemerides contain much valuable ma- 

 terial for the illustration of Walton's Life of Sir 

 Hen. Wotton. 



No. 1002. p. 586. Geneva. March 15, 1596. 

 To James Meadows (Medousius). 



Though I have gone through " a sea of troubles" 

 for Wotton s sake, yet I am sure that he is not to 

 blame. Thomson never writes to me about the 

 business but he commends Wotton's probity and 

 his regard for me. 



No. 1004. p. 587. Geneva. March 20, 1596. 

 To Jerome Commelin, the eminent printer. 



Wonders at the long silence of Scaliger and 

 Thomson. 



No. 1024. p. 595. Paris. Jan. 18, 1601. To 

 Thomson. 



I have not heard from you since my return to 

 the city, though I am assured that my letters and 

 present have come to your hands. " Scribe igitur, 

 sodes, mi oculissime, et magna sollicitudine me 

 liberaveris." I beg and entreat to send at once 

 your notes on Spartianus and his fellows. For 

 some days ago I met with a MS. of those histories 



* Explained by the entry in the Ephemerides, unde 

 Jan. 10, 1C11. 



